Sonnet 129

Sonnet 129 is one of the first of the Dark Lady sonnets. This particular sonnet is one of the more violent and dark sonnets. Throughout the poem, Shakespeare uses all three tenses. An interesting point to be made about the structure of the sonnet is that the first twelve lines of the sonnet are one long sentence. It is almost as if Shakespeare is going on some sort of rant to express his feelings. Also in the first twelve lines, he seems to have very “up and down” feelings. He goes from something negative to something positive and vice versa in several lines before the shift, which happens in line eleven. All of the lines previous to that were expressing Shakespeare’s dislike and displeasure of something. After that, he seems to have accepted love and he realizes that it is the way it is and there is nothing that can be done to change it.